Geekman's World: It's a terribly handy bag...

I noticed something today. For the umpteenth time I saw a woman carrying a La Senza bag on the bus, going TO work. Like, they have their lunch in there or something else. It strikes me as odd, perhaps because I'm a man, but it seems like this big flag: "Look here! I wear particularly sexy underwear!" Now, admittedly, they are terribly handy looking bags. They're sturdy for paper, often a convenient size, and have nice little rope handles. Still, whenever I see someone carrying such a bag, my first thought (being a heterosexual man and all) is naturally what they look like wearing said underwear. Ladies, what's your take on this: terribly handy bag, or shameless attention grab?

Work is a bit of a mess right now. One of our employees has sort of gotten ill and not gotten well. Now we have to replace him. This is the third time we've trained someone into that position and had it not work out somehow. This comes at a particularly bad time where it is the busiest time of year for us (annual reports for all companies with a year end of December 31st are due March 31st), and also a major Vancouver law firm is considering us for outsourcing all their EDGAR filing business. This would, at maximum usage, represent a 66% increase in our current business. Good news, but bloody difficult too, since we would have to train a minimum of two new employees. Hopefully we can find someone with some office/computer/basic HTML skills who's responsible and a fast learner.

This is on top of the fact that we need a serious upgrade to our database including some kind of job-management system. Also in need of an overhaul is our mailserver; our Cobalt RAQ systems are getting a little long in the tooth. I'm hoping to sell Andrew on an Apple Xserve, perhaps by suggesting that I take over the administration of our mail system. Here's hoping...

But now that you've mentioned it I am recalling seeing this many times myself... A new method of picking up people on the bus.

ok, the way i see it is that it is kind of a handy type bag (although i never carry one around unless i've just bought something from there), but i think that it's just a pitiful way of getting a guy to pay attention to them. as soon as a guy sees "La Senza" on a bag that a woman is carrying, they automatically assume that there's lingerie in it and obviously picture what it looks like and women know this...therefore, it is definitely an attention grab thing.

Ang: My humble impression is that La Senza does not the bulk of its profits from practical flannel PJs.

I saw the same person with the same bag on the way home... and a different person with the same bag.

See, carrying around the bag is too complicated. If the ladies really want our attention they should just do away with the bag and stop teasing our imaginations and just wear the lingerie. I guarantee they'll have our undivided attention.

Do I have to spell it out for you? I meant you must have been in there knowing what kind of stuff La Senza carries for your imagination to be running over. Naughtie, naughtie.

Although I have seen more females with LaSenza bags, there is the occasional guy brave enough to carry one, except it usually has lingerie. In my opinion, the guys with said bags would probably do just as well picking up people as the girls.